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Disney takes the mickey out of Scots heroes

Scotland's chief scientist has asked the Disney Corporation to change some of the exhibits at its Epcot theme park because she claims it misrepresents the achievements of some of the country's most successful inventors.

Professor Anne Glover accused Disney World in Florida of airbrushing some of Scotland's greatest scientific achievements from history.

The Inventors' Circle, which commemorates the world's greatest scientific pioneers, ignores the contribution of John Logie Baird, attributing the invention of the television to American Philo Farnsworth.

Plaques also suggest that Alexander Fleming, the Ayrshire-born father of penicillin, was English and Alexander Graham Bell, the Edinburgh-born inventor of the telephone, was American.

Glover, the Scottish government's chief scientific adviser, has urged Disney to change the plaques and to give Scotland the prominence it deserves. "These plaques appear to be an expression of a poor appreciation of geography," she said. "Scotland is home to about 0.08% of the world's